Trend-setter alert!

[i8ntskeered]

I'm starting a new trend, effective immediately. It is one that I am sure the world has never seen before. That trend is the adam's apple beard. I will shave everywhere on my face except around and on the adam's apple. I have been DE shaving for a couple of months now and enjoy it immensely. I am settling into quite a pleasant zone with my technique. I am buying WAY too much software, but again, I am really getting a feel for what works for me. I just can't seem to find ANYTHING that works around that blasted knot in the middle of my throat. Not only is the surface area impossible to navigate...the grain goes EVERY direction imaginable.

Keep in mind that I am 42 years old, and have been shaving since the early-to-mid 1980's. This is not a new problem for me. It's just exacerbated when I have a piece of super-sharp steel at my throat in the middle of an otherwise extremely pleasurable manly ritual.

So my answer to this is to simply stop shaving that quarter-sized bit of my throat. I will call this small patch of real estate the AAB. Maybe it will get long enough to braid, or tie beads in like the wandering peddlers do on the beaches of Jamaica. I'm just at my wit's end about trying to shave around my Adam's apple without pain and suffering and frustration.

That is all. Carry on.

 

[franz]

I have never been able to grow a presentable Adam's Apple Beard, though not for lack of trying.

Happily, stylish alternatives are readily available -

 

[Scott0079]

I fear for the future.

 

[franz]

RE: the apple beard: have you tried stretching your skin to each side (left and right)?

 

[Toothpick]

RE: the apple beard: have you tried stretching your skin to each side (left and right)?

This and swallowing so it raises up but holding the swallow.

 

[Bob L.]

Speechless...

 

[global_dev]

This sounds like a great new trend, just like the neck beard and perhaps it'll catch on quicker if you use one of those hair stencils or vajazzler ideas that have also become popular lately..

But seriously OP, I have a similar problem on my neck and straights solved it for me. So much more comfortable AND close.

 

[Useless shaver]

RE: the apple beard: have you tried stretching your skin to each side (left and right)?

This and swallowing so it raises up but holding the swallow.

Yup. It works for me.

 

[i8ntskeered]

The swallow thing and the stretch thing work most of the time. Last night was just a rougher experience than most. Just had to vent. Sometimes I just can't get the angle of approach in that area for the life of me.

But, Jon, I'm looking at the vajazzler option as well. I'm planning on progressing to straight razors, but not until I get the DE technique solid. I think Franz's suggestions are a bit extreme for the time being.

Thanks for letting me vent, gents.

 

[chrisf8657]

I fear for the future.

Your not kidding...